Bloch, Konrad Emil

1912 - Born on the 21st of January in Neisse, in the German Empire's Prussian Province of Silesia.

He was educated at the Technische Hochschule in Munich.

1934 - Due to the Nazi persecutions of Jews, he fled to the Schweizerische Forschungsinstitut in Davos, Switzerland.

1936 - He moved to the United States.

- Appointed to the department of biological chemistry at Yale Medical School.

1938 - Bloch received a PhD in biochemistry at Columbia University.

1939-1946 - He taught at Columbia.

1954-1982 - Served as Higgins Professor of Biochemistry at Harvard U1925 - Erich Bloch, IBM vice president and head of the corporate technical personnel development staff.

- Mr. Bloch studied electrical engineering at the Federal Polytechnic Institute of Zurich (Switzerland) and received his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Buffalo, New York.

1952 - Joined IBM as an engineer in Poughkeepsie.

1968 - He held a number of positions there and was named director of the Poughkeepsie laboratory.

1972 - He became a member of the Corporate Technical Committee.

1975 - He was named general manager of the East Fishkill facility.

1976 - He was made a vice president of the System Products Division, later the Data Systems Division.